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Biography

Killing in the name

A familiar story
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October 2022, no. 447

His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Bantam Press, $35 pb, 432 pp

Biography

Killing in the name

A familiar story
by •
October 2022, no. 447
George Floyd mural in Manchester, 2020 (Sam Pollitt/Alamy)
George Floyd mural in Manchester, 2020 (Sam Pollitt/Alamy)

I have no intention of reviewing this book. What is there to review? The story it tells is one we are told every day. It does not need telling. You know it already –  a story that is not a story at all.

So let’s begin somewhere else. Let’s begin at the beginning.

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Declan Fry

Declan Fry is a writer, poet, and essayist. Born on Wongatha country in Kalgoorlie, in 2020 he was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and awarded the 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship for the Meanjin essay 'Justice for Elijah or a Spiritual Dialogue With Ziggy Ramo, Dancing'. His work has appeared in Australian Book Review, Liminal, The Monthly, The Guardian, Overland, Westerly, and elsewhere.

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